This day in history

2001, 2006, 2016, 2020.

#20yrsago Delta flight delay after Islamaphobe mistakes orthodox Jews for Muslims https://web.archive.org/web/20011016000622/http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011015/od/delta_dc_1.html

#15yrsago Play Money: memoir of a year selling game-gold https://memex.craphound.com/2006/10/15/play-money-memoir-of-a-year-selling-game-gold/

#5yrsago After being outed for massive hack and installing an NSA “rootkit,” Yahoo cancels earnings call https://www.huffpost.com/entry/yahoo-hacking-verizon_n_5800eef7e4b0e8c198a78b14

#5yrsago Billionaire tech investors back ballot initiative to purge homeless people from San Francisco https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/10/14/silicon-valleys-acute-homeless-problem-ballot/91082346/

#1yrago Bricked Ferrari https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/15/expect-the-unexpected/#drm

#1yrago Dystopia as clickbait https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/15/expect-the-unexpected/#dystopia-is-over

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank, California. His latest nonfiction book is How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. His…